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Rare frog thought to be extinct rediscovered in Mindanao Published March 12, 2021 11:18am A pair of Filipino biologists has rediscovered in Mindanao a rare frog species that was thought to be extinct decades ago. Guttman's stream frog ( Pulchrana guttmani), first seen in  1993, was rediscovered by Kier Mitchel Pitogo and Aljohn Jay Saavedra in the forests of Mount Busa, according to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Guttman's stream frog is "an amphibian so rare, it was thought to be extinct for decades since it was first recorded," USAID said in a Fa...

One-hit wonder frog makes a comeback in the southern Philippines by Leilani Chavez on 1 March 2021 A pair of Filipino biologists have rediscovered Pulcharana guttmani, a rare Philippine stream frog first collected by biologists in 1993 and never seen again until now. Experts consider the blue-bellied frog among the rarest in the Philippines; the sole specimen was only described as a new species in 2015, more than 20 years after its collection. Its close resemblance to the more common granducola has hidden P. guttmani from science, eluding even herpetologists and Indigenous guides. Very littl...